Flame Retardants and our Political Mess

"Flame Retardants and our Political Mess...My column cites the flame retardants issue reported on in the Tribune as a textbook case where narrow corporate interests are able to use money and lobbying influence to overcome a broader public interest...I don’t think the public realizes that there are more than 80,000 chemicals in products all around us, and only a couple of hundred have been carefully tested for safety..."